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Why vague English sounds natural

being vague in English sounds the most natural because well imagine if we were super specific all the time how old are you twelve thousand days old yeah that would be weird so h...

Course: Richer descriptions and storiesSection: Using vague languageSubtitles: en

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being vague in English sounds the most

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natural because well imagine if we were

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super specific all the time how old are

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you twelve thousand days old yeah that

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would be weird so here are some

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expressions you can use when you don't

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want to be precise exact you want to

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express yourself better by being vague

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you can follow me on instagram twitter

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and facebook at papa teach me and if you

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want extra English practice you can join

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this channel as a member or join my

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patreon page my thingy really hers what

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thingy the thingy the back of my throat

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uvula yes that thingy thingy this is

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what we affectionately call something

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which we don't remember the name of or

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we just want to be vague if you want to

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talk about a part of a thing use bit for

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example I broke the bit of my phone

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which changes the volume I don't know

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the name of this so I'll call it the bit

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of my phone so we have different

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